Targeting welfare in Italy: old problems and perspectives on reform

Massimo Baldini, Stefano Toso and Paolo Bosi

Fiscal Studies, 2002, vol. 23, issue 1, 51-75

Abstract: This paper has two principal objectives. Using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and the 1998 micro data of the Bank of Italy survey of household income and wealth, we first study the distributional effects of the current Italian income maintenance system and highlight its main defects and limitations, concerning in particular its unequal coverage of the population and its low efficiency in fighting poverty. The second aim is to describe and analyse the reforms recently implemented in this field; in particular, the Italian government has reformed the targeting criteria and introduced three new cash transfers. We describe these reforms both in their institutional characteristics and in their likely distributional consequences, and examine whether and to what extent they are able to overcome the shortcomings of the current system.

JEL-codes: D31 H24 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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